Gurkovo
Sign in to saveGurkovo ( ) is a small town in the Stara Zagora Province, south-central Bulgaria. It is situated in the Tvarditsa Valley at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains. The town is the administrative centre of the homonymous Gurkovo Municipality. As of March 2024, the town had a population of 2,999.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Gurkovo
- Settlement.native_name
- Гурково
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- bg
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Banicarniza in Gurkovo.JPG
- Settlement.image_shield
- Gurkovo coat of arms.png
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Bulgaria
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Bulgaria
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Stara Zagora
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Gurkovo
- Settlement.leader_party
- Independent;2023
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Kuncho Papazov
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 58323
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Iosif Vladimirovich Gurko
- Official name
- Gurkovo
- Country
- Ottoman Empire
- Located in
- Gurkovo
- Population
- 2489
- Area
- 58.323
- Elevation
- 350
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Gurkovo
- Image
- Gurkovo-DSC01143.JPG
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- Commons category
- Gurkovo (city)
- different from
- Gurkovo
- native label
- Гурково
- postal code
- 6199
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Bulgaria
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Population
- References
Gurkovo ( ) is a small town in the Stara Zagora Province, south-central Bulgaria. It is situated in the Tvarditsa Valley at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains. The town is the administrative centre of the homonymous Gurkovo Municipality. As of March 2024, the town had a population of 2,999.
It is located along the main route that links the important Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo with the Thrace region of Bulgaria, notably Burgas on the Black Sea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gurkovo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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